Hal soon discovers that it's his estranged twin Bill who now has the monkey and is responsible for the deaths. Bill has been turning the monkey's key, hoping that it'll be Hal that the monkey kills.

“They own Darth Vader and they own the cymbals,” Perkins says. The filmmaker initially thought having the monkey play a drum might “cheapen” it. However, Perkins figured out a way for the ...

Have you ever had an old toy that didn't really make you smile? But actually, it sent shivers down your spine? Maybe it was its dead eye stare, or the frozen grin, or just the thought of what it might ...

The film led by Theo James follows the story of twins, who didn't get much from their father, but a haunted Monkey toy. But ...

Once that little monkey starts a tinny rat-tat-tat on his drum, nobody’s safe ... that’s the antithesis of naturalism. We wanted to play them as identical twins but completely different ...

Viewed as an absurdist dark comedy, or live-action horror cartoon for grown-ups, The Monkey is a gory good time, subverting audience expectations at every turn. Just don’t enter the cinema expecting ...

After 'The White Lotus' and 'The Gentlemen," the British-born actor takes his biggest risk yet in a dual role that doubles down on terror and comedy.

In addition to just how creepy the toy looks, every time someone winds up the monkey to play its drum, a bizarre and gruesome death occurs. It’s a testament to Perkins’s skills as a visual ...

No one is safe from the wrath of that wind-up toy monkey when it bares its teeth and starts banging on its drum. In an extended ... and they play their roles accordingly. There’s no social ...

You've got to play some humor ... which in the short story was a classic cymbal-banging monkey and in the movie now features drums — a change they had to make due to a bizarre copyright ...

Sure, as The Monkey’s tagline says ... There’s no reasoning. The bang of its drum, like a scythe scraping the ground, signals only one thing and heightens the tension and sense of dread.